A Gay Cake

We all have our separate view on virtually everything under the sun and feel this an intrinsic human right. 

Centuries of philosophical debate has led us to test our ability to reason on any subject and we place the action of rational thought at the very highest pinnacle of a civilised society.

The High Courts decision to force a small family run business in Ireland to bake a cake with a design on it which upset them because of its connotation is preposterous. The business's  refusal to bake the cake belong to any one of a number of decisions that any business chooses to make about the way it wishes to precede its business. If it says no I don't want to bake the cake, it should be perfectly in its right to do so, the potential client then has to search and find a company which will do so. I'm sure there are many Gay bakers who will step up to the plate.

 But of course it has nothing to do with the wishes or otherwise of the baker, it is rather the powerful Gay lobby who have chosen to make this yet another 'way point' in their campaign for Gay Rights which unfortunately means inhibiting the rights of others.

I would have thought in this case, "force majeure" should apply, it exempts the contracting parties from fulfilling their contractual obligations for causes that could not be anticipated. Clearly being asked to decorate the cake with a motif that went against their religious convictions was not something that could have been anticipated. Would a Jewish baker be forced to bake a cake in the image of Adolf Hitler, I doubt it.

The Gay lobby, like virtually all minority lobbies seem to carry a lot of clout these days and often get their way. Public opinion it is said is in their favour but I often wonder if this is true. I rather suspect it's the fear of vilification which weighs on all our minds amongst  a society which is weighed down with "politically correct" posturing.

The young couple who refused to bake the cake looked to me like perfectly reasonable articulate people. Their religious preference should not preclude them from saying no.

It's not as if they were the only cake maker in the land. It's another case where poorly worded 'anti persecution' laws are misused, for which the people who wish to represent Gay rights should be ashamed of themselves.